Strictly Come Dancing: Aliona Vilani
In 2011, Aliona Vilani won Strictly Come Dancing partnered by McFly drummer Harry Judd.
In 2010 Aliona Vilani was paired with Matt Baker in Strictly Come Dancing.
Matt and Aliona were runners-up on Strictly Come Dancing.
In August 2009, it was announced that Aliona Vilani was to make her Strictly Come Dancing debut as a professional dancer, partnering Rav Wilding in series seven.
Aliona and Rav won a dance-off in the first week of Strictly Come Dancing that saw Matthew Cutler and Martina Hingis voted off.
However, Rav and Aliona were eliminated in the third week of Strictly Come Dancing series 7.
Aliona Vilani was a 25-year-old from Kazakhstan when she became a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing.
She is 5'5" tall.
When she was five, Aliona was enrolled in Arts Gymnasium for classical ballet and performing arts and she started ballroom dancing in Russia when she was 11.
In 1997, Aliona Vilani went to the United States to be a member of the Kaiser Dance Academy in Brooklyn.
In 2001, Aliona turned professional and the following year she won the Yankee Classic Rising-Star Professional Latin championship.
In season 8 of Dancing with the Stars, the US version of Strictly Come Dancing, Aliona Vilani performed in the professional dances although she was not a professional dancer partnering a celebrity.
Granada Pavilion Ballroom Dancing has photos of Aliona Vilani and Leonid Proskurov dancing and YouTube has a video of Aliona Vetrenko Vilani and Leonid Proskurov in action.
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